Could this be a sign of a resurgent Far-Right in Germany?
Waving black flags and carrying banners, at least 2000 neo-Nazis marched in Dresden today, marking the official 60th anniversary commemoration of one of the fiercest Allied bombing raids of World War II.Police said about 5000 people joined the march in the eastern German city, making it one of the biggest far-right demonstrations since the war. About 70 people, including anti-fascist protesters, were arrested after minor clashes.—-The NPD provoked outrage last month by walking out of an event at Saxony state’s Dresden-based parliament to mark the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp and calling the air raids a “bombing holocaust”.NPD leader Udo Voigt was quoted in an interview with Die Welt newspaper yesterday expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler. “Only great leaders can commit great crimes,” he was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, it would seem that the Far Right and the Left might make strange bedfellows.
Far-right supporters, banned from wearing bomber jackets and boots -marched to the music of Wagner – carrying balloons saying: “Allied bomb terror – then as now. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden and today Baghdad. No forgiveness, no forgetting.”
